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en-usPhys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.Ocean currents may trace origins of MH370 debrisThere are two main Indian Ocean currents which may have caused debris from missing flight MH370 to wash up on the French island of La Reunion, experts said Thursday.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-ocean-currents-mh370-debris.html
Other Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:41:17 EDTnews357468070Scientists track monster waves below the ocean surfaceA scientific research team spent seven years tracking the movements of skyscraper-high waves in the South China Sea. University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science scientists were part of the collaborative international field study trying to understand how these waves, which rarely break the ocean surface, develop, move and dissipate underwater.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-scientists-track-monster-ocean-surface.html
Earth Sciences Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:29:41 EDTnews356714925A lesson in infrared light - looking at three tropical cyclonesThe Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is one of several instruments aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. AIRS observes the Earth in infrared light, allowing scientists to determine the temperature structure of the atmosphere, cloud tops and surface. AIRS is one of many satellite instruments observing tropical cyclones in all the ocean basins. On July 15, AIRS gathered data on three tropical cyclones: Typhoon Nangka, Tropical Storm Enrique and Hurricane Dolores.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-lesson-infrared-tropical-cyclones.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:40:28 EDTnews356596798NASA spots Hurricane Dolores over Socorro IslandHurricane Dolores moved over Socorro Island on July 15 as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. On July 16, the island was still feeling the effects of Dolores.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-nasa-hurricane-dolores-socorro-island.html
Earth Sciences Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:50:01 EDTnews356276199Annual checkup of Earth's climate says we're in hotter water (Update)In their annual, detailed physical of Earth's climate, scientists say the world is in increasingly hot and rising water.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-annual-checkup-earth-climate-hotter_1.html
Environment Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:49:15 EDTnews356276942Major greenhouse gases hit record highs in 2014: report In 2014 the world's oceans swelled, major greenhouse gases that fuel global warming hit record highs and the planet's surface temperature reached its hottest point in 135 years, international researchers said Thursday.http://phys.org/news/2015-07-annual-checkup-earth-climate-hotter.html
Environment Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:46:21 EDTnews356262373New study finds heat is being stored beneath the ocean surfaceFor much of the past decade, a puzzle has been confounding the climate science community. Nearly all of the measurable indicators of global climate change—such as sea level, ice cover on land and sea, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations—show a world changing on short, medium, and long time scales. But for the better part of a decade, global surface temperatures appeared to level off. The overall, long-term trend was upward, but the climb was less steep from 2003–2012. Some scientists, the media, and climate contrarians began referring to it as "the hiatus."http://phys.org/news/2015-07-beneath-ocean-surface.html
Earth Sciences Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:07:09 EDTnews355727219Ocean surface currents now being measured in near real-time off HiloA new data set of the direction and speed of ocean surface currents in Hilo Bay is now available online. The hourly data updates are accessible to the public and free of charge on "Voyager," the interactive mapping platform of the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System or PacIOOS.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-ocean-surface-currents-real-time-hilo.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2015 06:38:07 EDTnews354173877Last month was hottest May in modern history: NOAALast month marked the hottest May in modern history, continuing a troubling trend of rising global temperatures, US government scientists said Thursday.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-month-hottest-modern-history-noaa.html
Environment Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:24:39 EDTnews353849072NASA: International satellite studying oceans stops workingNASA says an international satellite studying the world's oceans has stopped working after four years.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-nasa-international-satellite-oceans.html
Space Exploration Thu, 18 Jun 2015 03:41:23 EDTnews353817676International spacecraft carrying NASA's Aquarius instrument ends operationsAn international Earth-observing mission launched in 2011 to study the salinity of the ocean surface ended June 8 when an essential part of the power and attitude control system for the SAC-D spacecraft, which carries NASA's Aquarius instrument, stopped operating. The Aquarius instrument successfully achieved its science objectives and completed its primary three-year mission in November 2014.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-international-spacecraft-nasa-aquarius-instrument.html
Earth Sciences Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:15:18 EDTnews353787307NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite gets colorful look at Hurricane BlancaNASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite flew over Hurricane Blanca in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and gathered infrared data on the storm that was false-colored to show locations of the strongest thunderstorms within the storm.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-nasa-noaa-suomi-npp-satellite-hurricane.html
Earth Sciences Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:17:03 EDTnews352750616Global climate on verge of multi-decadal changeA new study, by scientists from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre (NOC), implies that the global climate is on the verge of broad-scale change that could last for a number of decades.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-global-climate-verge-multi-decadal.html
Earth Sciences Thu, 28 May 2015 05:54:19 EDTnews352011250Climate engineering may save coral reefs, research showsGeoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-climate-coral-reefs.html
Environment Mon, 25 May 2015 11:00:03 EDTnews351764809Heat from global warming captured by the Pacific Ocean being transferred to Indian Ocean(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in the U.S. has found what they believe to be the answer to the question of what happened to the heat uptake in the Pacific Ocean due to global warming. In their paper published in Nature Geoscience, they suggest that it has been transferred to the Indian Ocean. Jérôme Vialard with Université Sorbonne offers a News & Views piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-global-captured-pacific-ocean-indian.html
Earth Sciences Tue, 19 May 2015 10:10:02 EDTnews351247242Did ocean acidification cause marine mollusc extinction?New research, led by the University of Southampton, has questioned the role played by ocean acidification, produced by the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, in the extinction of ammonites and other planktonic calcifiers 66 million years ago.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-ocean-acidification-marine-mollusc-extinction.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 11 May 2015 15:00:03 EDTnews350561270Researchers measure giant "internal waves" that help regulate climateOnce a day, a wave as tall as the Empire State Building and as much as a hundred miles wide forms in the waters between Taiwan and the Philippines and rolls across the South China Sea – but on the surface, it is hardly noticed.http://phys.org/news/2015-05-giant-internal-climate.html
Earth Sciences Thu, 07 May 2015 06:33:09 EDTnews350199167Climate change affects whalesResearchers at the University of St Andrews believe that fin and humpbacked whales have changed the timing of their seasonal migration in response to global warming.http://phys.org/news/2015-04-climate-affects-whales.html
Plants & Animals Wed, 08 Apr 2015 07:30:01 EDTnews347695277Pacific-wide study reveals striped marlins' preferred habitat, may help avoid overfishingIn the largest study to track striped marlin in the Pacific Ocean, marine ecologists report the preferred habitat of this valuable commercial and recreational fish by using direct observations collected by satellite tags. Details appear this month in an early online edition of Fisheries Research.http://phys.org/news/2015-03-pacific-wide-reveals-striped-marlins-habitat.html
Ecology Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:28:32 EDTnews346595305Ocean pipes 'not cool,' would end up warming climateTo combat global climate change caused by greenhouse gases, alternative energy sources and other types of environmental recourse actions are needed. There are a variety of proposals that involve using vertical ocean pipes to move seawater to the surface from the depths in order to reap different potential climate benefits. A new study from a group of Carnegie scientists determines that these types of pipes could actually increase global warming quite drastically. It is published in Environmental Research Letters.http://phys.org/news/2015-03-ocean-pipes-cool-climate.html
Environment Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:00:01 EDTnews345988701Gulf of Mexico marine food web changes over the decadesScientists in the Gulf of Mexico now have a better understanding of how naturally-occurring climate cycles—as well as human activities—can trigger widespread ecosystem changes that ripple through the Gulf food web and the communities dependent on it, thanks to a new study published Saturday in the journal Global Change Biology.http://phys.org/news/2015-03-gulf-mexico-marine-food-web.html
Environment Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:02:05 EDTnews345812515New baby orca, other discoveries made by tracking teamA new baby orca wasn't the only interesting discovery researchers made while tracking endangered killer whales.http://phys.org/news/2015-03-baby-orca-discoveries-tracking-team.html
Plants & Animals Thu, 05 Mar 2015 16:00:21 EDTnews344793610Why seashells' mineral forms differently in seawaterFor almost a century, scientists have been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth's oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of calcite, and at other times form a chemically identical form of the mineral, called aragonite, that is more soluble—and therefore more vulnerable to ocean acidification?http://phys.org/news/2015-03-seashells-mineral-differently-seawater.html
Condensed Matter Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:26:46 EDTnews34458637630 years of above-average temperatures means the climate has changedIf you're younger than 30, you've never experienced a month in which the average surface temperature of the Earth was below average.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-years-above-average-temperatures-climate.html
Environment Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:20:01 EDTnews344166300NASA satellite sees a warm winter in the Western USWhile people in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S have been dealing with Arctic Air, the bulge in the Jet Stream over the eastern Pacific Ocean has been keeping the western third of the U.S. in warmer than normal temperatures over the last two months. Infrared data from NASA provided a look at those surface temperature extremes from west to east.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-nasa-satellite-winter-western.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:23:49 EDTnews343931017Study examines role of acoustic-gravity waves as ocean transport, early warning of tsunamisAcoustic-gravity waves—a special type of sound wave that can cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound—can be generated by underwater earthquakes, explosions, and landslides, as well as by surface waves and meteorites. A single one of these waves can stretch tens or hundreds of kilometers, and travel at depths of hundreds or thousands of meters below the ocean surface, transferring energy from the upper surface to the seafloor, and across the oceans. Acoustic-gravity waves often precede a tsunami or rogue wave—either of which can be devastating.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-role-acoustic-gravity-ocean-early-tsunamis.html
Earth Sciences Tue, 03 Feb 2015 06:21:14 EDTnews342166862Scientists identify ocean biology that affects sea spray chemistry, atmospheric particlesBreaking ocean waves beget a wake of bubbles. Reaching the sea surface, they burst into a spray of salt and carbon-rich material produced from microscopic sea critters. The far-flung particles can loft high enough to affect cloud-forming droplets. In a paper appearing in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, a team of researchers including Drs. Susannah Burrows and Phil Rasch of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Dr. Scott Elliott, devised a new method to identify the chemical composition of the sea spray, and how that chemical make-up is affected by ocean biology.http://phys.org/news/2015-02-scientists-ocean-biology-affects-sea.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:14:43 EDTnews342083675Slope on the ocean surface lowers the sea level in EuropeResearch at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has discovered that a 'slope' on the ocean surface in the Strait of Gibraltar is lowering the sea level in Europe by 7cm. This research, published today in Geophysical Research Letters by Prof Chris Hughes of the NOC and University of Liverpool, will help to more accurately predict future sea levels by providing a more complete understanding of the factors that control it.http://phys.org/news/2015-01-slope-ocean-surface-lowers-sea.html
Earth Sciences Thu, 29 Jan 2015 07:12:54 EDTnews341737964Ocean could hold the key to predicting recurring extreme wintersResearch at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) may help to predict extreme winters across Europe by identifying the set of environmental conditions that are associated with pairs of severe winters across consecutive years.http://phys.org/news/2015-01-ocean-key-recurring-extreme-winters.html
Earth Sciences Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:10:01 EDTnews341476512The heat is on; NOAA, NASA say 2014 warmest year on recordFor the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday.http://phys.org/news/2015-01-record-breaking-hottest-modern-history-noaa.html
Environment Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:17:13 EDTnews340633021